SENSES

Our first TOK class started with a really interesting question, How was the weather this weekend? For us this question sounded a little obvious so we were very confident with our answers but this lead us to a surprisingly very interesting questions, Should we actually depend in our senses for knowledge like how was the weather? or, Why are we so comfortable depending on the facts that we get from our senses? After trying to answer this questions with things like, that’s what it was taught to use since we were born or, our senses are our direct interaction to the world. Later on the teacher showed us a picture by Pablo Picasso for about 20 seconds. After seen the picture for a while she asked 10 questions about the picture to which we all responded in completely different ways .Considering that everybody saw the picture in different ways and got interesting and concentrated in different parts of the painting brought ideas like “just because we all see the same signals doesn’t mean that the knowledge we get from them is the same” or how our environment and our past or even sometimes our perspectives can change the meaning of signals given by our senses. By the end of the class the whole idea of senses changed a lot for me Personally it made me think, if everything is actually as we see it or just as the picture form Pablo Picasso we are just seeing the world in our own perspective, getting the signals of the world each of us in a different way.

Here we have a Beau Lotto showing us some optical illusions. With this optical illusions he is showing us how we can't or we should always relay in our senses. 


http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/beau_lotto_optical_illusions_show_how_we_see.html